Sewing basket



A. L. SEVERSON SEWING BASKET April 20, 1954 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed March 4, 1950 [72067222]: QZ/red L flea 6]6072.

A ril 20, 1954 A. L. SEVERSON SEWING BASKET 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 X n n I o n o 0 Filed March 4, 1950 Patented Apr. 20, 1954 SEWING BASKET Alfred L. Severson, Chicago, Ill., assignor to The Chicago Lighthouse For The Blind, Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Illinois Application March 4, 1950, Serial No. 147,713

4 Claims.

This invention relates to so-called sewing baskets of the type having a receptacle body and a cover or closure therefor.

Heretofore some sewing baskets have been produced with pockets formed on the inside wall of the receptacle body for the reception of certain articles of sewing paraphernalia. In the main, all sewing baskets heretofore produced were of such nature that many of the articles used in sewing, such as spools of thread, needles, scissors, etc., were by necessity placed loosely in the receptacle body and sometimes mixed with articles to be worked upon, thus taken up important temporary storage space which might be utilized for such articles to be worked upon. Furthermore, when spools of thread are so placed in the body of the basket, it frequently happens that the thread becomes unwound from the spools and tangled around other articles in the basket resulting in considerable annoyance and waste of time before sewing can again be undertaken.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a novel and improved sewing basket provided with a series of spring devices mounted on the underside of the cover for supporting spools of thread in depending relation from the cover.

Another object is to provide an improved sewing basket of the character indicated, provided with a band of resilient material secured to the underside of the cover at a plurality of spaced points to form a series of pockets for storage of various articles of sewing paraphernalia.

A further object is to provide an improved sewing basket having an inverted, dish-shaped cover provided with devices on the underside of said cover for supporting various articles of sewing paraphernalia therefrom and within the vertical dimensions thereof.

Still another object is to provide an improved sewing basket which is durable, efficient in use and capable of being economically manufactured.

Other objects and advantages of this invention will be apparent from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a top view of the sewing basket embodying the present invention;

Figure 2 is a view partially in side elevation, and partially in section through the cover, taken substantially as indicated at line 2-2 on Figure 1;

Figure 3 is an underside view of the cover of the basket; and

Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view through the basket.

The sewing basket embodying the present invention includes an upwardly open receptacle body I0 and a cover I l. The body includes a base [2 and a side wall of generally circular form made up of reeds of various cross sectional forms. The body is of woven reeds of various cross sectional form. As may be seen in the drawing, the body is of generally inverted, frusto conical form. Extending upwardly beyond the top marginal edge of the body is a plurality of handles [4, formed of a reed of inverted U-shaped form with the legs thereof as indicated at I5, being interlocked with the reeds forming the body proper. As shown in the drawin s, four handles are employed, and which are spaced apart substantially equal angular distances. The handles, as may be seen in Figures 2 and 4 of the drawings, extend upwardly and outwardly at an acuteangle to vertical for purposes to be hereinafter described.

The cover I l is of inverted dish-shaped formation as may be seen in the drawings, and is formed mainly of woven reed, and is provided at its central area with a mounting block, such as wood, as indicated at Hi, to which is secured a knob or hand clasp member [9. The cover is of generally circular contour and is dimensioned so that its outer marginal edge sets upon the upper marginal edge of the receptacle body H). The plurality of handle members l4 serve to guide and effect a centering of the cover element in seated relation to the receptacle body. The arrangement of the handle elements thus eliminates the necessity of providing a shoulder or bead member on the underside of the cover for registration with the inner wall of the receptacle body for insuring proper centering or seating of the cover on the body.

Connected to the underside of the mounting block l8 on the underside of the cover is a wood panel 20 of circular form to which is rigidly secured a pin cushion 22. Secured to the panel 20 in surrounding relation to the pin cushion is a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart spring devices 23 adapted for firmly supporting thereon, in depending relation from the underside of the cover, spools of thread as indicated at 24. Each of the spring devices includes a relatively rigid supporting leg 23a and a spring finger 23b. The leg and finger are so correlated as to insure a firm frictional force fit into the opening of a spool of thread for insuring firm but disengageable support for the spool thereon, even when the cover is in a normal position, as seen in Figure 2 of the drawing.

A resilient cord 26 is secured to the underside articles to be worked upon.

of the cover I I at a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart points by passage around certain of the radially extending reeds of the cover, as clearly seen in Figure 3 of the drawings, forming a multiplicity of pocketsv for the reception of various articles of sewing paraphernalia, such as thimbles, scissors, needles, etc. The free ends of the cord 26 are preferably lapped and stitched together, as seen in Figure 3 of the drawings.

It will be noted that due to the dish-shaped formation of the cover, the pin cushion, together with the spools of thread supported on the devices 23, and the articles mounted within the pockets formed by the resilient cord, all will be disposed within the vertical dimensions of the cover.

By virtue of the present invention, it is possible to conveniently store temporarily, various articles of sewing paraphernalia in an orderly fashion while at the same time having available for maximum utility, the total storage areaof v the-receptacle body for various materialsv .or

Although I have herein shown described a preferred embodiment of my invention, manifestly it is capable of modification and rearrangeapart relation to provide a supporting leg for attachment at its free end to said cover and a cooperating spring finger extending in a laterally outward direction from said leg, said leg and finger being dimensioned and corelated to each other for a resilient force fit into the opening of a spool of thread for supporting the latter in depending relation from said cover, and a resilient cord secured to said cover at a plurality of spaced points, positioned laterally from said spring devices, to form a series of pockets on the underside of the cover, around said spring devices, for the reception of various articles of sewing paraphernalia.

3. A sewing basket, having an upwardly open receptacle body, a cover for said body, having a cross-sectional area slightly greater than the opening of the body and three circumferentially spaced apart handles connected to and projecting upwardly beyond the top marginal edge of said body for camming-and confining said cover in substantially.centralized relation to said body.

4.. Asewingbasket, having an upwardly open receptacle body, a cover for-said body, having a .cross-sectionali area slightly greater than the opening of the body and three,circumferentially mentof parts withouti departing from the spirit and scope thereof. 1 do}not, therefore, wish to be understood as limiting this. invention to the table body; an"inverted-dish-shaped cover for said body, and a plurality of spring devices secured to the underside of the central area of the cover, said devices-eachbeing-dimensioned and 1 arranged for cooperativeengagement' with a spool of thread for supporting the latter in dependingv relation to and within the vertical dimensions or" said cover, whereby said spools of thread-when rial'or objects within said body;

2. In a sewingbasket, an upwardly open re ceptacle body, an inverted-dish shaped cover-for said body, aplurality of spring devices secured to the central portionof the underside or the cover, said devices each being'fcrmed 'ofa single the cover is onsaid body, do not contact mate piece of resilient wire bent" upon itself in spaced upwardly beyond the top marginal edge of said body and extending outwardly at an angle to vertical for camming and confining said cover in substantially centralized relation to. said body.

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